Culturally Responsive Computing

A pedagogical approach to computing education that grounds instruction in learners' cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic realities rather than treating Global North curricula and technologies as universally applicable. Building on Ladson-Billings' culturally relevant pedagogy, it asks educators to design learning experiences that reflect students' lived experiences, native languages, and community knowledge, and to treat local context as a resource rather than a deficit. In accessibility contexts — for example, teaching blind learners in India to use screen readers — it means adapting curricula, analogies, and scaffolding to linguistic diversity, infrastructural constraints, and local employment realities instead of importing Western pedagogical models unchanged.